Cornmaven's Reviews > The Friday Night Knitting Club

I don't know why I keep reading this book. The reviews on the back were good, and claimed a relationship to Steel Magnolias and How To Make An American Quilt.
Well, I think this is a sophomoric attempt to ride on the coattails of those great works. So many exclamation points! So much 6th grade sentence structure! Far too much parenthetical explanation of character - every time the author wants to add a new detail to a character's life/personality, she has to justify it in a parentheses.
The thing is not poetic at all, which it could have been. It really could have been something good - the metaphor of knitting is a powerful one - isn't that why Dickens used it in Tale of Two Cities? But Jacobs just never measures up.
I think I keep reading it because I actually paid money for it. :-)

I finally had to give it up. I just couldn't take the poor writing. I began to not care about the characters, so it was time to let go. And I am glad I did. Someone somewhere will love this book. It just wasn't me.